The Sensei Of Dandelions Hushed

Author : Ken Hinckley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1493621718

Get Book

The Sensei of Dandelions Hushed by Ken Hinckley Pdf

Join Morrow Walker and the inimitable Great Serendipity Scott as they unfurl the tangled strands of time in their most harrowing adventure ever. Can they help Shizuko Katani, honored sensei and one-time mentor of Mr. Scott, find solace with her long-lost baby sister?It just takes a pinch of snuff, a dandelion in bloom, and the guts to confront a lightning storm while the world's first atom bomb shudders atop a hundred-foot steel tower directly overhead.A Great Serendipity Scott adventure in the White Sands of the Trinity atomic test site, by the author of The Totem of Curtained Minds - now available in Fiction River.About the Author:Writer and working scientist Ken Hinckley resides in the Seattle area with his wife and children. His fiction appears in professional markets including Nature, Penumbra, and Fiction River, and his research career spans some 80 scientific papers and 150 patents (and counting). He believes he may yet have a good idea or two left in him.You can find him at kenhinckley.wordpress.com.

Author : Masayo Umezawa Duus
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520917675

Get Book

The Japanese Conspiracy by Masayo Umezawa Duus Pdf

In early 1920 in Hawaii, Japanese sugar cane workers, faced with spiraling living expenses, defiantly struck for a wage increase to $1.25 per day. The event shook the traditional power structure in Hawaii and, as Masayo Duus demonstrates in this book, had consequences reaching all the way up to the eve of World War II. By the end of World War I, the Hawaiian Islands had become what a Japanese guidebook called a "Japanese village in the Pacific," with Japanese immigrant workers making up nearly half the work force on the Hawaiian sugar plantations. Although the strikers eventually capitulated, the Hawaiian territorial government, working closely with the planters, cracked down on the strike leaders, bringing them to trial for an alleged conspiracy to dynamite the house of a plantation official. And to end dependence on Japanese immigrant labor, the planters lobbied hard in Washington to lift restrictions on the immigration of Chinese workers. Placing the event in the context of immigration history as well as diplomatic history, Duus argues that the clash between the immigrant Japanese workers and the Hawaiian oligarchs deepened the mutual suspicion between the Japanese and United States governments. Eventually, she demonstrates, this suspicion led to the passage of the so-called Japanese Exclusion Act of 1924, an event that cast a long shadow into the future. Drawing on both Japanese- and English-language materials, including important unpublished trial documents, this richly detailed narrative focuses on the key actors in the strike. Its dramatic conclusions will have broad implications for further research in Asian American studies, labor history, and immigration history.

Author : Joy Kogawa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Canadiens d'origine japonaise - Évacuation et relogement, 1942-1945 - Romans
ISBN : 0140169881

Get Book

Itsuka by Joy Kogawa Pdf

Author : Troll Lord Games
Publisher : Troll Lord Games
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1936822350

Get Book

The Storyteller's Thesaurus by Troll Lord Games Pdf

Writers, game designers, teachers, and students ~this is the book youve been waiting for! Written by storytellers for storytellers, this volume offers an entirely new approach to word finding. Browse the pages within to see what makes this book different:

Author : Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994-11-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400820979

Get Book

Rice as Self by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney Pdf

Are we what we eat? What does food reveal about how we live and how we think of ourselves in relation to others? Why do people have a strong attachment to their own cuisine and an aversion to the foodways of others? In this engaging account of the crucial significance rice has for the Japanese, Rice as Self examines how people use the metaphor of a principal food in conceptualizing themselves in relation to other peoples. Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney traces the changing contours that the Japanese notion of the self has taken as different historical Others--whether Chinese or Westerner--have emerged, and shows how rice and rice paddies have served as the vehicle for this deliberation. Using Japan as an example, she proposes a new cross-cultural model for the interpretation of the self and other.

Author : Fusami Ogi,Rebecca Suter,Kazumi Nagaike,John A. Lent
Publisher : Springer
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319972299

Get Book

Women’s Manga in Asia and Beyond by Fusami Ogi,Rebecca Suter,Kazumi Nagaike,John A. Lent Pdf

Women’s Manga in Asia and Beyond offers a variety of perspectives on women’s manga and the nature, scope, and significance of the relationship between women and comics/manga, both globally as well as locally. Based on the activities since 2009 of the Women’s MANGA Research Project in Asia (WMRPA), the edited volume elucidates social and historical aspects of the Asian wave of manga from ever-broader perspectives of transnationalization and glocalization. With a specific focus on women’s direct roles in manga creation, it illustrates how the globalization of manga has united different cultures and identities, focusing on networks of women creators and readerships. Taking an Asian regional approach combined with investigations of non-Asian cultures which have felt manga’s impact, the book details manga’s shift to a global medium, developing, uniting, and involving increasing numbers of participants worldwide. Unveiling diverse Asian identities and showing ways to unite them, the contributors to this volume recognize the overlaps and unique trends that emerge as a result.

Author : Richard St. Barbe Baker
Publisher : Forres : Findhorn
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0905249631

Get Book

My Life, My Trees by Richard St. Barbe Baker Pdf

The author, a conservationist, forester, founder of Men of the Trees was responsible for planting over 26 trillion trees during his lifetime. This book, written when he was 80, tells his life story.

Author : Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 069102846X

Get Book

The Monkey as Mirror by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney Pdf

This tripartite study of the monkey metaphor, the monkey performance, and the 'special status' people traces changes in Japanese culture from the eighth century to the present. During early periods of Japanese history the monkey's nearness to the human-animal boundary made it a revered mediator or an animal deity closest to humans. Later it became a scapegoat mocked for its vain efforts to behave in a human fashion. Modern Japanese have begun to see a new meaning in the monkey--a clown who turns itself into an object of laughter while challenging the basic assumptions of Japanese culture and society.

Author : Tetsur? Watsuji,Watsuji Tetsuro
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791430936

Get Book

Watsuji Tetsuro's Rinrigaku by Tetsur? Watsuji,Watsuji Tetsuro Pdf

Watsuji Tetsuro's Rinrigaku (literally, the principles that allow us to live in friendly community) has been regarded as the definitive study of Japanese ethics for half a century. In Japan, ethics is the study of human being or ningen. As an ethical being, one negates individuality by abandoning one's independence from others. This selflessness is the true meaning of goodness.

Author : Jane Yolen,Rebecca Kai Dotlich
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781590788677

Get Book

Grumbles from the Forest by Jane Yolen,Rebecca Kai Dotlich Pdf

What were all those fairy-tale characters thinking? Jane Yolen and Rebecca Kai Dotlich answer this question in paired poems, with sometimes startling results. The Princess claims all those mattresses kept her awake—not a silly pea—while the poor pea complains that the princess snores. One Snow White begs the witch to settle by the bay and throw that mirror away. Another boldly tells the mirror she "won't be guided by a glass that's so one-sided." Grumbles from the Forest is a bewitching brew of voices—grumbling, pleading, bragging, reminiscing, confiding—that bubbles with magic and wonder. The spectacular paintings that tie the poems together are full of surprise and intrigue. This stunning collection includes end notes that briefly describe the tales and their history and an introduction that invites readers to imagine their own poems from unusual perspectives.

Author : Robin D. Gill
Publisher : Paraverse Press
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780974261874

Get Book

Mad in Translation by Robin D. Gill Pdf

Even readers with no particular interest in Japan - if such odd souls exist - may expect unexpected pleasure from this book if English metaphysical poetry, grooks, hyperlogical nonsense verse, outrageous epigrams, the (im)possibilities and process of translation between exotic tongues, the reason of puns and rhyme, outlandish metaphor, extreme hyperbole and whatnot tickle their fancy. Read together with The Woman Without a Hole, also by Robin D. Gill, the hitherto overlooked ulterior side of art poetry in Japan may now be thoroughly explored by monolinguals, though bilinguals and students of Japanese will be happy to know all the original Japanese is included.--amazon.com.

Author : David Ward
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0838636764

Get Book

Antifascisms by David Ward Pdf

This book is an in-depth analysis of three of the most crucial years in twentieth-century Italian history, the years 1943-46. After more than two decades of a Fascist regime and a disastrous war experience during which Italy changed sides, these years saw the laying of the political and cultural foundations for what has since become known as Italy's First Republic. Drawing on texts from the literature, film, journalism, and political debate of the period, Antifascisms offers a thorough survey of the personalities and positions that informed the decisions taken in this crucial phase of modern Italian history.

Author : Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1984-06-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521277868

Get Book

Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney Pdf

The cultural practices and cultural meaning of health care in urban Japan.

Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780544271890

Get Book

Sword of the Rightful King by Jane Yolen Pdf

An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. “[A] spellbinding twist on the Round Table legend . . . a standout in this enormous canon.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) The newly crowned King Arthur is unsure of himself; worse, the people are unsure of him. Too many people want the throne, and treachery is everywhere. Merlin must do something before the king is betrayed, or murdered, or—worst of all—gets married. So Merlin magically places a sword into a slab of rock, lets it be known that whosoever removes the blade will rule all of England, and invites any man who would dare to try to pull out the sword. After a bit of showmanship, Arthur will draw the blade (with a little magical help, of course), and the people will rally around the young king. Except someone else pulls the sword out first . . . A Booklist Editors’ Choice ABA’s Pick of the Lists A Parent’s Guide Children’s Media Award Winner “Yolen takes elements of Arthurian legend and makes them her own in this involving novel.”—Booklist (starred review) “[A] page-turning tale of magic and adventure, betrayal, loyalty, and love.”—School Library Journal (starred review) “A subtle, many-layered tale . . . It is, as the book’s ending tells readers, ‘an old story but a good one,’ and Yolen does it honor.”—VOYA (5Q—highest rating)

Author : Rodney Needham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : UCAL:B4381539

Get Book

Symbolic Classification by Rodney Needham Pdf

Non-Aboriginal material.